And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Although "blessed" in its primary meaning denoted asking the divine blessing, the original word became a form of salutation at meeting and parting. Such forms of parting salutation, from the nature of the case, readily take, in any language, the secondary sense, to leave, to depart from.

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